Today I was fortunate enough to talk to people who are blind or visually impaired that use the computer a lot. All the participants in the conference were in R&D for adaptive computer techonologies and equipment.<\/p>\n
They found that the games for the blind became boring very quickly. Once they learnt the game they felt it was boring, however this may be\u00a0because of their R&D background. Lots of games for the blind are not exciting for the sighted because of the lack of graphics. If I want to create a game for both sighted and non sighted, I must engage both audiences so I need to provide visuals in a context that makes sense but not necessarily disadvantages the visually impaired.<\/p>\n
Another consideration that came out of the conference call was that I should not look towards adaptive technologies because not everyone will have accessibility to the necessary hardware. So my previous idea of using the Novint Falcon may not be a wise design decision because it is not accessible to everyone, so instead I should focus on audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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